Praxis 5005 (Important Scientists)
Nicolaus Copernicus - answersun is at the center of the solar system, not the Earth
(heliocentricity)
Galileo Galilei - answerMade a good telescope, discovered Jupiter's moons, and
furthered Copernicus' idea of heliocentricity. Also talented at math and credited with the
scientific method.
Sir Isaac Newton - answerlaws of motion and discovery of gravity
Albert Einstein - answertheory of relativity (related to gravity)
Daniel Bernoulli - answerprinciple to explain the conservation of energy in fluids
Gregor Mendel - answerfather of genetics
Louis Pasteur - answerdiscovery of airborne diseases and vaccines
Charles Darwin - answertheory of evolution
Marie Curie (along with her husband Pierre) - answerdiscovered Radium and Polonium
Rosalind Franklin - answerused x-ray crystallography in her research on the DNA
molecule
Dmitri Mendeleev - answercreated the basis for today's periodic table
Nicolaus Copernicus - answersun is at the center of the solar system, not the Earth
(heliocentricity)
Galileo Galilei - answerMade a good telescope, discovered Jupiter's moons, and
furthered Copernicus' idea of heliocentricity. Also talented at math and credited with the
scientific method.
Sir Isaac Newton - answerlaws of motion and discovery of gravity
Albert Einstein - answertheory of relativity (related to gravity)
Daniel Bernoulli - answerprinciple to explain the conservation of energy in fluids
Gregor Mendel - answerfather of genetics
Louis Pasteur - answerdiscovery of airborne diseases and vaccines
Charles Darwin - answertheory of evolution
Marie Curie (along with her husband Pierre) - answerdiscovered Radium and Polonium
Rosalind Franklin - answerused x-ray crystallography in her research on the DNA
molecule
Dmitri Mendeleev - answercreated the basis for today's periodic table
